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Here are some BOV sounds you can replace with the stock BOV in the TDU Engine sounds

For you Guys who dont know what a BOV sound is :
its the whistling noise your car makes when you let of the throttle ( normaly only on turbocharged cars )

How to Replace them :

!!make a Backup of everything if youre not sure what youre doing!!

-Download the MiniBNKManager for TDU2
-Unpack the Soundfile of your car (Note: this works only with cars who have a BOV ingame e.g: Audi S3, WRX Sti ,VW Golf )
-Go to your work Directory ( the one that is created by the BNKmanager)
-find the file of the BOV that you want to Change ( in case of the Subaru its : turbo_dump_high_3_Short.wav )
-Choose a sound from my pack
-rename the Wave file EXACTLY like the Original one
-Drag the Sound you want of the Soundpack in the folder where the Original File is and overwrite it ( Make a Backup of the Original ! )
- Repack the Bnk file with the MiniBNKmanager
-Put the new BNK file in the TDU folder and replace it with the old one
-Done

Download: BOV Sounds.rar (571,27 KB) - uploaded.net

feel free to post the pack on other sites but please keep the Download link !

Greetings!
Over the past week i've learned myself how to make sound mods for TDU and so will you!
Anyway let's start with few basics tools you're gonna need;
1. Sony Vegas 17 (If you don't have legal copy, you can always get a free trial which lasts for 30 days, or you can crack it)
2. TDUMT (Test Drive Unlimited Modding Tools)
3. Samples from Video Games!
I RECOMMEND GETTING SAMPLES FROM GAMES SUCH AS GRID, DIRT, GTR2, NFS, FORZA etc..

I'M USING SAMPLES FROM GTR2 FROM SIMBIN!

BEFORE YOU DO ANY MODDING, PLEASE DO A BACKUP!

Before we even start doing any modding itself. We have to be sure what audio.bnk are gonna modify today's example is LP720_Cpe_audio

Now let's begin:

PAGE 1:
1. Open TDUMT program and pick File Browser.

2. After you picked File Browser. On the left side of your screen you're gonna see a yellow file named Sound. As soon you click on it you will see few files but the one you're looking for is Vehicules.

3. We found the LP720_Cpe_audio in the program. Now we're gonna do a New Folder on Desktop and you can name it however you like. Let's call it 720 for our example. Then we will CTRL + A everything and click Extract... to your 720 Folder on your Desktop.

NOW I'M GONNA TELL YOU SOMETHING ABOUT THE CarVSTConfig.xmb FILE.
CarVSTConfig.xmb file is a coded file from Atari that regulates on what RPM the sounds activate in-game. I do NOT recommend messing with the file itself as it can break the whole sound.
4. Now that you extracted all your files to your 720 Folder. Now we have to check how long are the samples. For this example i will use Lambomurci_onhigh file. Now Right Click --> Properties --> Details and check Length. As you can see our file is 00:00:05 long which means it's a 5 second loop.

5. After we know how long the sample is we can now open Sony Vegas 17!

We can get that easily with these steps.
1. Open Sony Vegas 17.
2. Drag and Drop the Lambomurci_onhigh to the Editing Section so we can access Render As... options.
3. On top left you will see a tab called File. After you clicked on it. Click Render As...

4. As soon you click Render As... tab, you will be greeted with a rendering section.
5. Now find the Wave (Microsoft) tab and click Default Template.

6. After you clicked Default Template you can notice that you can notice that a new tab lighted up under the name Customize Template, click on the tab.
7. After you clicked on the Customize Template tab, you have to change the Format from PCM (uncompressed) to Microsoft ADPCM.

8. After you did that now we have to pick correct Attributes. We have to find 44,100 kHz, 4 Bit, Mono. Once you find it, click on it and then click OK. And we have our Template finished under the name Default Template (*)

P.S YOU CAN ALSO SAVE THE TEMPLATE BY CLICKING ON THE STAR ON THE LEFT SIDE OF THE TEMPLATE BY CLICKING FILTERS OFF --> SHOW FAVORITES ONLY
NOW LET'S GET TO THE REAL DEAL OF SOUND MODDING!
PAGE 3:
1. Firstly let's put Lambomurci_onhigh on the 1st channel in Sony Vegas, then we put the sample to 2nd channel

2. As you can see that 2nd channel sample is too long. If the sample is too long the game cannot read the file and it won't work! So what we have to do is trim the to the lenght of the original TDU sample

3. Once you're done trimming the 2nd channel. Now you can delete the 1st channel and export the sound under the name Lambomurci_onhigh on 177 Kbps, 44.100 Hz, 4 Bit, Mono, ADPCM format
P.S KEEP IN MIND THAT YOU HAVE TO REPEAT PAGE 3 FOR EACH SOUND YOU HAVE! SUCH AS;
-idle
-onlow
-onmid
-onhigh
-offlow
-offmid
-offhigh
-starter
After you done with all the sounds in correct lenght and format now it's time to import the sounds back to LP720_Cpe_audio.bnk file
PAGE 4:
1. Open TDUMT program and pick File Browser.
2. After you picked File Browser. On the left side of your screen you're gonna see a yellow file named Sound. As soon you click on it you will see few files but the one you're looking for is Vehicules.
3. Find your LP720_Cpe_audio.bnk file and find the tab named Replace and click Keep Name...

4. Now it's gonna ask you to find the Lambomurci_onhigh file
5. Repeat for every file
6. Once you're done replacing every file. Congrats, you've made yourself a sound mod!

Right, lets learn some of the basics in PS. I use Photoshop CS3 Extended (the latest, biggest and best :D) in Windows Vista. Even so, most versions are similar, and you should be able to follow the tutorials okay if you use a different version or OS.

Anyhows, enough of my rambling, lets get this show on the road...

Before we get our way into images, lets get used to Photoshop. So open it up, and look at what you've got.

1: Menu Bar. This contains a lot of useful stuff, you'll use it a lot. Make sure you know I refer to it as the Menu Bar :P

2: Tool Options. This contains info and different options about the selected tool.

3: Toolbar. Contains all the different tools, we'll go into them a bit more in a sec.

4: Dock. This contains more useful stuff, which we'll go into in a sec.

5: The Navigator gives you a small overview of your image. The small slider underneath is the zoom. You can also change the zoom by typing it in the small box next to the slider. Once zoomed it, you can move around your imager by clicking in the red box and dragging it around your image.

6: Your Pallette. Yours will most likely be on the tab 'Color', I tend to keep mine on 'Swatches' as it has a load of preset colours. Simply click the colour you want, and it'll become your foreground colour.

7: This contains your Layer Pallette. Layers are immensely useful. They're like seperate images within your image. You can move, delete, edit, erase, and make new layers. I'll show you how to do most of this in a minute.

Before you start...

You'll need to know a couple of things. First of all - how to undo what you've done, either...

Press 'Ctrl + Alt + Z'

or go though your History (See #4)

You'll also need to know about your colour palette.
http://i186.photobucket.com/albums/x12/randomus_robbius/colours.jpg

The top colour (Black be default) is your foreground colour. This will be used by most tools.
The bottom colour (white be default) is your background colour. This is only used by a couple of tools.

The small symbol on the top left reverts the colours back to default. The symbol on the top right switches the foreground and background colour around.

Click on either the fore- or background colour and this will appear...

Now we've gone over that, I'm gonna actually get on to the bits I kept promising you, lol

This is used to make selections. Selections allow you to move part of an image/layer around, apply effects to that area, fill that area with a colour or gradient, etc, etc.
The different shapes allow you to select circles, rectangles and one pixel selections horizontal or vertically.

Hold 'Ctrl': Changes to the move tool, allowing you to move the selected layer

Once you've made a selection (a moving black and white line indicates your selection), you can either move the selection around, create a new one or change it. In the Menu Bar (the bit at the top, remember?) you will see it says 'select'.

I'd be worried if you didn't know what this did, but anyway. This cuts out a defined part of your image and throws away the rest. Click and drag to select area of an image, fiddle around with the controls to get it perfect. Hit Enter(or return, whatever) or click the tick at the top in tool options. Voila. :lol:

Spot Healing tool: This is used to remove blemishes, dirt, scratches etc from pictures. Click and drag over the blemish to remove.

Healing Brush Tool: Same as the Spot Healing Tool, but you define a point to take detail from (Hold Alt and click) before going over the blemishes.

Patch Tool: Use the freehand selection to go around the blemish. Click and drag the selection to an area with detail you want to replace the blemish with.

Red Eye Tool: Removes Red Eye from photos. Click and Drag to make a selection over the eye.

Brush Tool
You'll use this quite a lot, it's used to put colour on images in various shapes and sizes.

Brush Tool: You'll use this quite a lot, it's used to put colour on images in an infinate range of shapes and sizes. Click and drag to 'paint' on your image, hold 'Shift' to create only straight lines, 'Ctrl' changes to the move tool.

Pencil Tool: This is similar to the brush tool, but doesn't have smooth edges. Often used at size one for pixel art. Same action as above

Color Replacement Tool: Changes areas of a certain colour to the foreground colour. You can adjust the tolerance in Tool Options. Again, same actions as above.

Photoshop come with lots of preset brushes, although they ain't that interesting. (How to download new brushes [link])Click on the drop-down menu and see what you've got (ignore the mahoosive (massive) bit on the right.

http://i186.photobucket.com/albums/x12/randomus_robbius/th_brush.jpg

The top slider adjusts the size of the brush. The box 'Use Sample Size' is for downloaded brushes, it puts them back to the default size.

The bottom slider (not activated in my pic as I had a downloaded brush selected) adjusts how smooth the edges are. 0 means a real blurry edge, 100 is a very hard edge.

The bit below these contains your brushes. Click on it to select that brush, and colour your image with that shape/style.

Now to the mahoozive bit on the right. Click the small arrow in the top right of the drop-down box, and it'll appear. Probably won't be quite as big as mine :P
Anyhoos, you probably won't need to worry about most of it except the big list at the bottom that starts 'Assorted Brushes'. This shows all the installed brushes in Photoshop. By default, these won't all be showing in the area where you select your brushes. But surely you want to have a play and see what they look like? So, click one of the bits in the list, start at the top if you're organized.

:eek: Oh noez, the computer is shouting at you...

http://i186.photobucket.com/albums/x12/randomus_robbius/ohnoez.jpg

But it's fine, don't worry! Clicking OK removes the current list of brushes and replaces it with the one you selected. But I want to see them all at once! I hear you cry (well, I did anyhows). Click 'Append' and it'll add 'em on the the end of the ones you already had. Hoorah :)

Clone Stamp Tool

http://i186.photobucket.com/albums/x12/randomus_robbius/stamptool.jpg

Clone Stamp Tool: This is used to replace areas of an image with another part of it (much like the Healing Brush). Hold 'Alt' to select a point to take detail/colour from. Go to the point where you want to cover summat up and click and drag. Voila. You can adjust the brush size for doing larger/smaller areas.

Pattern Stamp Tool: This works in the same way as the brush tool, used to put pre-defined patterns on your image. The pattern is change in Tool Options.

Eraser Tool: Click and drag to delete that area of the selected layer. Hold 'Shift' to erase only in straight lines. The brush size and shape can be adjusted in Tool Options. Erasing the background will put in the background colour unless you use the...

Background Eraser Tool: This will erase the background and make it transparent (signified by white and grey background).

Magic Eraser Tool: This keeps what you erase within the outlines (ie, large colour changes) of what you're erasing. To a certain degree, can't say it's that brilliant.

Gradient Tool: Click and drag to insert a gradient in a selection, new layer, or an existing layer (will overwrite what was on that layer). By default, the gradient will be from your foreground to background colour, but you can change this in Tool Options.http://i186.photobucket.com/albums/x12/randomus_robbius/th_gradientoptions.jpg

Clicking the long box (white to black in my pic) will bring up the Gradient Editor. You will see a few preset gradient, and the ability to make your own at the bottom. Next to that box are a range of different gradient styles - Linear, Radial, Angled, Reflected and Diamond.Have a fiddle with each, see what comes up :)

Paint Bucket Tool: Click to fill with colour in a selection, new layer, or area of colour on a current layer. Hold 'Alt' to bring up with colour picker, and click to change the foreground colour to what your cursor is hovered over.

Sponge Tool: Click and drag to desaturate/saturate an area of an image.

With each tool, the brush size and shape can be adjusted in Tool Options, and you also have the option of whether you desaturate (reduce colour) or saturate (increase colour) when using the Sponge Tool.

The Pen Tool creates paths. Paths are similar to selections, but don't have to be a closed area, and are much easier to create and modify until perfect. To create a simple path, select the following in Tool Options.

http://i186.photobucket.com/albums/x12/randomus_robbius/path.jpg

The other option to the left creates a filled area on a new layer. The option to the right creates a filled area on the current layer. Anyways, we want the one in the middle for now.

To create a path, click. It's that simple. You now have your starting point. Click again, somewhere else, and you have another point with a straight line in between. To make a curved line, click somewhere on you're existing line. Now you have another point. Hold 'Ctrl', click and drag that point to create a curve. Simple, see? You will notice you also have two other smaller points sticking out each side of that point. These adjust the angle of the curve, and whereabouts along the line it curves. Hold 'Ctrl' and click to pull, twist and jiggle them around - see what happens.

You can have any number of points on one line, click to create, 'Ctrl' + Click to move, click on it again to delete. When you've finished making your curve, click again further on from the end of your last point, and the line will go there. Then set about making the curve again.It may seem long winded at first, but you get used to it.

Anyway, once you've created your path, you can stroke, fill, make selection or define custom shape. Right click to bring up the menu.

Make Selection: This (surprisingly) turns your path into a selection. Usually best to use this on a closed path (ie, the ends meet) otherwise Photoshop will do it for you and you'll have some dodgy straight line that messes up your path.

Fill Path: Also only works on closed paths, fills it with the foreground colour.

Stroke: This creates a line on you image along the path. When you click 'Stroke Path' it asks which tool you'd like to use. So, you have to set up that tool beforehand so it looks right. For example, most people use the brush tool. So, select the brush tool and set it to 1 pixel. Set your foreground colour to black and select the pen tool again. Stroke path with the Brush Tool and make sure 'Simulate Pressure' is unticked. Ta-dah, one pixel stroke. Now you've done that, you can fiddle with different sizes and try turning on 'Simulate Pressure, this can create quite nice effects.

As for the other tools in the drop-down menu, most of them we have use by pressing keyboard shortcuts, much easier than going there every time. The only one that might be of use is the Freehand Pen Tool, but as you know I hate freehand tools so we won't talk about that ;)

Once again, also does what it says on the tin... As for the 'Direct Selection Tool', I haven't the foggiest. I didn't know it was there 'til I was taking screenshots and haven't quite worked out what it's for :p

This inserts notes or audio comments in your file. Only works in PSD as far as I'm aware, usually used for communication in companies. ie, designer makes it, person who approves it looks at it, makes comments for them to change, and sends it back. I think. Anyways, its irrelevant :p

Unless you've got Photoshop CS3, this won't actually be there. All of the various bits and pieces will be part of the tabs at the right, or won't even be visible (for now). Either way, you can bring them up by clicking 'Window' in the Menu bar and finding them from the list. If they're already open in the tabs, it'll bring them to the front. In CS3, you can bring windows you've opened from this menu into the dock.

History
http://i186.photobucket.com/albums/x12/randomus_robbius/history.jpg

This displays a list of the last few changes you've done. Remember that it doesn't keep everything you've done, after a while it overwrites the oldest changes. If you're going to do something you're not sure will work that will clog up the history (such as using the pen tool), right click and select 'New Snapshot' and it'll save the image in that state. To the right of every history item you will see a small empty box. Clicking this will define a point for the History Brush.

These are a saved sequence of changes made to an image. There are a few preset ones in Photoshop, but you can easily make your own. Simply press 'New Action' http://i186.photobucket.com/albums/x12/randomus_robbius/newaction.jpg and name it. Then hit the small 'Record' http://i186.photobucket.com/albums/x12/randomus_robbius/record.jpg button before you make the changes. Once you've made the changes, press 'Stop' http://i186.photobucket.com/albums/x12/randomus_robbius/stop.jpg.
Now you've saved your action you can apply it to another images by simply pressing 'Play'http://i186.photobucket.com/albums/x12/randomus_robbius/actions.jpg.

Tool Presets

This is mainly for the Brush Tool and things like that. They are a set of saved tool settings - ie size shape, hardness, gradient - various things like that. There are again, a few preset ones in Photoshop but it's possible to save your own by clicking Edit in the menu bar and choosing 'Define Brush Preset'.

These are saved layer properties in an image. It means you can easily change between different designs of the same thing, as each layer comp saves properties such as position and visibility. You can create a new layer comp by clicking 'Create New Layer Comp' http://i186.photobucket.com/albums/x12/randomus_robbius/newaction.jpg. Then you can choose each one from the list.

That's it!

That's the end of this tutorial. This is just from my personal use of Photoshop. If anyone has summat they'd like to add, sned it to me and I'll put it in :)